[anbende]

Also the implication that the digital equivalent of adding entire new lines (new products, new features, or new backend infrastructure, I guess?) is just a "click of a mouse" glosses over the large amount of work that goes into software and tech development, especially at the largest scales. Yes, it might be faster than building a rail line in the early 1900s, but the "button click" metaphor seems a little silly.

[pcstl]

I feel like this is a general bias of people who look at reality through a Marxist framing - for their theory of reality to make sense, they need to undervalue any kind of work that does not take the form of "producing material objects".